“Growing Together” With Joanne Young
The Spring Gardening Series is now complete and considered a big success by its participants. The classes ran March 1st to May 31st.
We have talked Joanne into offering a FALL GARDENING SERIES September 13 to Oct 4, 2025!
Class details will be posted soon.
Additionally mark your calendars for the 2026 Spring Gardening Series
Joanne is very well known in the region as Niagara-on-the-Lake's Garden Coach. With more than 30 years of gardening experience, she brings her great humour and teaching skills to the classroom making learning even the most complex garden techniques easier to understand and fun to learn.
THE 2025 SPRING SERIES LINE UP WAS:
MARCH 1st - The Five Senses of Garden Design
All your senses are alert in the garden, taking in all that nature has to offer you. The garden stimulates your senses of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste.
MARCH 8th - Pruning Deciduous Shrubs
A well-maintained garden will last for many more years than one that has not been properly pruned.
MARCH 15th - Fusion Gardening
If you are up with the latest gardening magazines and garden blogs you probably have been reading about one of the “hottest trends” in gardening - “fusion gardening”.
MARCH 22nd - Waking Up Your Garden and Assess Your Garden Design
One of the most important steps in gardening is properly opening you garden for the spring. The result will be less work in the long run, and glorious garden come summer!
MARCH 29th - All About Grass- Spring Lawn Care, Replacement Plants and Artificial Grasses
Does the thought of tackling your lawn this spring make you want to stay inside? There are some simple steps that you can take to get your lawn off to a healthy start. We will be discussing topics such as: aerating, de-thatching, overseeding and fertilizing.
APRIL 5th-Taking A Garden From Mish-Mash to Magnificent
(Putting Texture, Colour and Form To Work In Your Garden)
This class is for you if you have bought someone else's idea of a garden, or somehow you have arrived at a confused garden layout by your own doing.
APRIL 12th - Growing Native/Attracting Pollinators
Regardless of your garden style, and whether you are starting a new garden or renovating and old garden, there is always room to add some native plants.
APRIL 26th - Noteworthy Plants - Over-Achievers In The Garden
There are special plants that are ‘must-haves’ for the garden. They are the fundamentals of good design and lend colour, texture and movement to your garden.
MAY 3RD - Designing with Perennials
Perennials are the backbone of your garden design. But have you have just planted all your favourite flowers, picturing in your mind the glorious garden that is to come, only to be disappointed by the results.
MAY 17th - Creative Container Combinations
Tired of your container gardens looking the same year after year? Would you like to step things up a bit? Come and see how choosing the right plant combinations can add that “wow” factor to your containers. Once you have the winning combination, you will not be able to “contain yourself”
MAY 24th - Pruning Evergreens
Knowing proper pruning techniques is one of the most frustrating and misunderstood areas of gardening. The well-being and longevity of a plant is determined by how well it has been pruned over the years.
MAY 31st - Tough Plants For Tough Places
Do not let anyone tell you that gardening is easy work. No matter how green your thumb is we all have areas in our yards that continually give us a problem; areas where you have tried and tried again to make something grow, but to no avail.
About Joanne Young
For more than 30 years Joanne Young worked at Mori Gardens in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON as a Garden Designer and Consultant. She feels privileged over the years to have completed more than two thousand landscape designs of all sizes, for both commercial and residential properties.
She loves talking with people about their gardens and helping them to make their dream gardens become a “growing” reality. She spends a lot of time diagnosing diseased plant material and identifying insect problems and advising clients on possible solutions to their problems.
As past-president of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Horticultural Society, Joanne has been involved in many community outreach projects including a pollinator garden at Newark Park Community Gardens and another pollinator garden at the William/Nassau Park. She was also provided design for the Niagara-on-the-Lake Library Gardens and Labyrinth located at the back of the building.
She has also have had many, many opportunities to teach seminars and lead workshops on various gardening topics which she enjoys doing greatly. She loves to see both experienced and novice gardeners get excited about plants and start to see the possibilities that lie undiscovered in their own yards.
Joanne is available for private garden consultation and you may connect with her through her website at joanneyoung.ca
